prh2j posted:..................York Cons:
- For some reason, and I think I only noticed it in the Orange Hall, some of the aisles don't go from one end of the building completely to the other in a straight line, so if you are abiding by the "yellow arrow" one way direction markers on the floor, you end up having to go back down an aisle you've already visited to actually get to where you want to go.................
You already have a lot of great responses to other parts of your post, but I didn't see this part covered, so I'll suggest the method to deal with this when shopping.
As you found, if you walk from front to back, there are spaces where it doesn't line up. If you take your first instinct and start on one side of the room, the ends and maybe first or second aisle in from each end are the same from the front all the way to the back.
I find it much easier to cover the hall in halves. If you do all the front aisles 1st, the arrows make sense, and you don't need to worry about how they line up with the back half (or vice versa).
I'm also pretty sure the arrows are (intentionally) missing in the rear aisles where the walkways are so wide there is more than enough room for people to walk in both directions. Same for the 1st aisle or 2 in the front, but arrows become important for the majority of the front half when it becomes the narrower walkways - where instead of booths you have tables with chairs in front of them on both sides of the aisle.
There was one or 2 meets in the past where there might have been an error based on the aisle spacing where 2 aisles next to one another in the front had arrows going in the same direction, but I don't think that was the case this meet. Even if it is, it's relatively trivial to skip back one aisle to get back to the "in" end of the arrow for the second row you would like to see.
-Dave
